Everyone knows that forgiveness is not easy! Stephen Hayes suggested that unforgiveness is like being on a giant hook. Next to you on the hook is the person who has hurt you. The hook is extremely painful and wherever you go, so does that hook and so does the offender. The only way you can get off the hook is if you allow the offender off first. The cost of not allowing the offender off of the hook is, perhaps, a lifetime of unhappiness. Is it really worth it to spend your life unhappy?
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Orphans walk with one eye present to be among the living, but a constant twitching in the eye because at any moment they made be yanked back into a system of bondage that they desparately want to escape. Traveling around from here to there with a stack of luggage on their back, if not visable to the eye, it is emotional weight that constantly feeds the track of their minds with full occupants in a race, going round and round, and around. These mental demons are on a treadmill attacking confidence, belonging, identify, inheritance, healing, and a possible future of peace.
This is the orphan spirit. A behavior that manfests what we belive we are not entitled to because we are unworthy to recieve such an awesome gift from a loving God. There is no need to prove yourself to your Daddy God. He knows what you are capable of whether you are holding a gun in your hand, a bag of weed, or a can of Bud Light burping incessiantly. God loves you and He does have a plan for your life. Associate yourself with the belief that no matter what I have done, Daddy God still loves me and has a place for me in His kingdom. Desire to be there and turn away from your current activity knowing that you have been adopted.
(An excerpt from Danita Ogandaga’s upcoming series, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Orphans” available for release June 2012).
Experiencing loss is inevitable! Our healing rests in how we approach it! There is freedom from the Orphan Spirit! I hope that you will experience additional clarity in your life for recognizing if the Orphan Spirit is an issue that explains the behavior, mindset, or “that thing” that you have been dealing with for many days, months, or years.
God came to set the captive free and that means you! He wants the very best for us and does not want to see his children absent from experiencing love, even though we may not have received that love from our natural mother or father. How we approach the things in life that we lose will make the difference in our ability to take hold of the healing that God is offering to us.
Culture and society are readily waiting to help you to identify yourself and employ you on the neverending treadmill of adopting culture that is swift and everchanging. God wants us our of the rat race and into the Kingdom of His love.
The Orphan Spirit is defined as anything in this life that has been present in your life for some time in which you find a deep attachment to or a bond that is deep seated. Once that attachment is broken, you develop a mindset in which you do not believe that life can exist without that “thing” or person in your life. The orphan spirit can be debilitating because it causes you to develop the extreme of becoming a hermit and enclosed within yourself or caught up in a cycle of people pleasing where you can not rest or enjoy life; in essence, you are always looking for something whether that be love or things to fill a void.
Recognizing the Orphan Spirit can assist us in beginning the stages of healing; it all starts with:
Fully recognizing or accepting that the orphan spirit has become a stronghold in your life.
Ask God for revelation of the truth of His word to assist you in breaking those strongholds.
Forgive, Forgive, Forgive and let yourself and those persons in your life who harmed you to go so you can walk into your wealthy place of freedom and serenity in receiving the unconditional love of God.
Open yourself up to the life that God has purposed you to live. He has called us to rest and to enjoy life to the fullest!
Doing these things will assist you in breaking free from this deafning stronghold and walking into all that God has for you!
Danita Ogandaga, MSW 